Thurston, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,830 ft 560 m1,630 ft 495 m1,530 ft 465 m1,330 ft 405 m1,130 ft 345 m1,030 ft 315 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Thurston sits at about 1,630 ft (495 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,630 ft 495 m
most residents: 1,390–1,700 ft
Lowest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,830 ft 560 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,570 ft 480 m
all land inside town boundaries
Thurston spans about 800 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,830 ft560 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Thurston | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Airport (7N1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.4 mi east of the town boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,570 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Steuben County, New York, United States
- Population
- 1,229 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2229° N, 77.2641° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Chemung River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Corning-Painted Post (7N1) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 14801 14810 14820 14821 14879
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cameron1,640 ft
- Thurston1,630 ft
- Rathbone1,520 ft
- Bath1,120 ft
- Village of Bath1,110 ft
- Campbell1,060 ft
- Savona1,050 ft
- Addison1,050 ft
- Village of Addison1,000 ft
- Coopers Plains970 ft
- Erwin950 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York105th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Steuben County10th highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Peters Hill, Steuben County1,840 ft
- Platt Hill, Steuben County1,770 ft
- Brown Hill, Steuben County1,660 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census town boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.